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About the Team


The Community Engaged Research Team helps to ensure research seeks to answer questions important to the community and implements patient, caregiver, and community centered recruitment, data collection, and dissemination methods. Utilizing our expertise in community based participatory and engagement research, the Community Engaged Research team, led by Andrea Bradley-Ewing, partners with the CMRI Children’s Mercy Research Institute Community Advisory Board (CAB) to collaborate and provide technical support to research teams. We encourage teams to engage with communities early in the project development process. We also provide trainings on these skills for researchers at Children’s Mercy and partnering institutions.

 

 

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Leader


Andrea Bradley Ewing, MPA, M.A., is the Senior Director of Community Engaged Research in the Division of Health Services and Outcomes Research at Children’s Mercy Kansas City. For more than a decade Ms. Bradley-Ewing has garnered extensive experience conducting community engaged and community based participatory research (CBPR) studies, including directing large intervention trials exploring the utility of behavioral counseling strategies, such as cognitive behavioral therapy and Motivational Interviewing (MI) to promote health behavior change. She has collaborated with patients and families, heath care providers, and community-based organizations to address health issues including diabetes, heart disease, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and rare disease affecting underrepresented communities. Ms. Bradley-Ewing partners with patients, caregivers, and commuity members to develop English and Spanish speaking families on a Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded project to develop and refine interventions to improve health outcomes and reduce disparities.